Modalities : philosophical essays / Ruth Barcan Marcus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marcus, Ruth Barcan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and logic.

Metaphysics.

Modality (Logic).

Ontology.

First philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Philosophical essays

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These papers cover important themes such as extensionality, the necessity of identity, the conception of proper names as 'tags', essentialism, substitutional quantification, and possibilia and possible worlds. What emerges from them is a robust defence of quantified modal logic in the light of a host of objections, particularly from Quine.

Contents:

Modalities and Intensional Languages

Iterated Deontic Modalities

Essentialism in Modal Logic

Essential Attribution

Quantification and Ontology

Classes, Collections, Assortments, and Individuals

Does the Principle of Substitutivity Rest on a Mistake?

Nominalism and the Substitutional Quantifier

Moral Dilemmas and Consistency

Rationality and Believing the Impossible

Spinoza and the Ontological Proof

On Some Post-1920s Views of Russell on Particularity, Identity, and Individuation

Possibilia and Possible Worlds

A Backward Look at Quine's Animadversions on Modalities

Some Revisionary Proposals about Belief and Believing.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-983341-9

9786610451234

1-280-45123-8

0-19-802396-0

0-585-38184-4

OCLC:

922952861